Sentences with phrase «liberal states in the union»

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Union Theological Seminary (UTS) became one of the leading centers of LIBERAL Christianity in the United States.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

That has outraged liberal groups, unions, and the New York Times, but Cuomo responds by warning that high taxes are a job - killer and would «just prolong the recessionary conditions in the state.»

In June 2016 following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the EIn June 2016 following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the Ein which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the Ein favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the Ein the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the Ein accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the EU.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have challenged the Secretary of State for Wales to commit to campaigning for staying in the European Union during the upcoming referendum, following doubts regarding his position on the matter.

A veteran lawmaker close to the city and state teachers» unions and Mr. de Blasio, Ms. Nolan is the shrewd Cuomo antagonist the liberals in the body would want.

You have to remember that there are a lot of democrat liberals in New York that love the nanny state and paying taxes to support the corrupt politicians and their unions, That they would elect a liar and pervert well, the elected Clinton as their Senator, nothing more need be said.

Unions and ideological liberals have long turned to these plans because state money is primarily derived from income taxes — which are progressive, in that higher - income earners pay at higher rates — as opposed to property taxes, which are regressive because they remain the same regardless of income.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Rep. Keith Ellison laid down the battle lines for President Barack Obama, whose White House is wedged in the middle between conservative Senate Democrats and the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition and liberal House DemocratIn an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Rep. Keith Ellison laid down the battle lines for President Barack Obama, whose White House is wedged in the middle between conservative Senate Democrats and the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition and liberal House Democratin the middle between conservative Senate Democrats and the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition and liberal House Democrats.

In this liberal controlled state that is dominated by the greedy, corrupt public employee unions which cause the high tax rates and huge budget deficits for there outrageously generous benefit plans and inefficient work rules?

That discomfort left some uncertainty as to how closely the new White House - aligned mobilization in the states would coordinate its grass - roots efforts with those of unions and other liberal groups that are planning to mobilize their forces ahead of the negotiations.

The State Senate passed the EITC, which is derided by the teachers» unions and some liberal Democrats as a backdoor voucher program, in January.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Gov. Haley Barbour (R - MS) on CNN's «State of the Union» «The state party chairman who left office, instead of having a primary where all the Republicans could have a voice in who they wanted, instead they let a handful of people pick somebody who is not just a liberal Republican, she's more liberal than many of the DemocState of the Union» «The state party chairman who left office, instead of having a primary where all the Republicans could have a voice in who they wanted, instead they let a handful of people pick somebody who is not just a liberal Republican, she's more liberal than many of the Democstate party chairman who left office, instead of having a primary where all the Republicans could have a voice in who they wanted, instead they let a handful of people pick somebody who is not just a liberal Republican, she's more liberal than many of the Democrats.

The most aggressive resistance to the Common Core isn't taking the form of direct action against the process but is coming from «social justice» liberals and progressives, who may be union members but are not by and large in charge of state or local affiliates.

While not every state and local union leader falls into this category, an overwhelming majority do, despite an internal poll by the National Education Association which found that its rank - and - file is slightly more conservative (50 percent) than liberal (43 percent) in political philosophy.

Back in the summertime, when a lone liberal Democrat state legislator funded by a local oilman was pushing to bring his tax hike proposal to the ballot, a teachers union member's question was published in the CEA Journal (the union's official «rag»):

B4K's arrival on the scene in May rattled liberal Democrats and the NJEA, the state's largest teachers» union.

On the April 4 ballot will be two - term incumbent Tony Evers, a public school advocate backed mostly by liberals and teachers unions who has been at odds with Republicans for years over his adoption of the Common Core State Standards and his opposition to the expansion of private school vouchers in the sState Standards and his opposition to the expansion of private school vouchers in the statestate.

A rare coalition of conservative and liberal justices ruled 6 - 3 in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 11 — 94, that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires a jury to determine facts to support a sentence imposed after a guilty verdict...

The city's protection as a liberal bastion in the center of the state by Union soldiers during the Civil War has seen its statue maintained today as a progressive, liberal bastion.